We're hoping to focus on three areas:

Locations

Hardware

A limited amount of hardware can be made available upon request . Please email Mark Saad mark.saad@longcount.org Before Thursday the 26th. This would be use for testing the upcoming 9.1-RELEASE installer .

Plan of action

We'll convene on the IRC channel starting Saturday July 28th and start to look through PRs, review docs and examples and create a list of work for the day. A good starting place would be freebsd-bugs@ or any known issues you may be aware of that do not yet have a pr.

Volunteers

For those helping out who are not committers, the best plan is to pick an area that you are familiar with and find a pr and work on testing and validating it . If you've tested it and are confident that the patch is correct, submit a followup to the PR saying so, and if possible (and concise enough) submit an example of behavior before and after. Then, drop a message into the IRC channel. Hopefully a committer will pick the PR up, verify that it looks sensible and commit it. If not, the PR can be added to the PRs recommended for committer evaluation by the bugbusting team by anyone with freefall access so that it doesn't get lost.

Committers

As mentioned above, non-committers will be both announcing PRs that are believed to be ready to commit in the IRC channel, but also these PRs will be added to the list of recommended PRs. The source of this file is ~linimon/public_html/recommended.prs, which is world-writable, and closed PRs will automatically be removed from the generated HTML.

For those with freefall access, a list of unallocated PRs containing patches can be generated with:

It would be good if any commits originating from this bugathon made mention of the fact in the commit message - this helps to get word out that it is occuring, and also shows people how effective bugathons can be.